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>SDL_DisplayFormatAlpha</H1
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>SDL_DisplayFormatAlpha&nbsp;--&nbsp;Convert a surface to the display format</DIV
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>#include "SDL.h"</PRE
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>SDL_Surface *<B
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>SDL_DisplayFormatAlpha</B
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>(SDL_Surface *surface);</CODE
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>This function takes a surface and copies it to a new surface of the
pixel format and colors of the video framebuffer plus an alpha channel,
suitable for fast blitting onto the display surface.  It calls
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>If you want to take advantage of hardware colorkey or alpha blit
acceleration, you should set the colorkey and alpha value before
calling this function.</P
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>This function can be used to convert a colourkey to an alpha channel,
if the <TT
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>SDL_SRCCOLORKEY</TT
> flag is set on the surface.
The generated surface will then be transparent (alpha=0) where the
pixels match the colourkey, and opaque (alpha=255) elsewhere.</P
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>If the conversion fails or runs out of memory, it returns
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>SDL_ConvertSurface</A
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